It's easy to make sushi at home with the right kitchen accessories and cook's tools. As a home cook, you will need a mix of everyday kitchen items like sharp knives and wooden cutting boards along with specialized tools like bamboo rolling mats. Besides the cooking tools and accessories, the key to successful sushi at home is fresh food and sushi-grade ingredients. Here are some tips to make sushi at home.

Kitchen Accessories and Tools
Sushi is all about making precise cuts of fish, seaweed, rolls and veggies so it's important to use sharp knives. Japanese sushi knives are a good choice as they are honed on only one side to create a sharp cutting edge. You can also use your everyday knives. Sharpen them with honing steel before using them. A great tip while cutting rolls is to moisten the blade of the knife. This prevents tearing of delicate ingredients like seaweed. For all those using very sharp knives, it's essential to practice safe cutting and slicing techniques. One good tip is to slice away from your hand and keep your fingers clear of the blade.

Other kitchen accessories that are very helpful while making sushi are wooden cutting boards. It's important to choose wooden cutting boards as they are non-reactive to key sushi ingredients like rice vinegar and other acidic sauces. Wooden boards have the added advantage that they don't dull knives like plastic ones.
Bamboo stirring spoons and bamboo rolling mats are also helpful tools for making sushi. These mats consist of thin strips of bamboo tied together with cotton string. They come in several sizes and are very helpful for rolling different types of rolls like makizushi rolls. These specialized tools are easily available online.

Food and Ingredients
One of the main ingredients of sushi is rice. Choose rice that is labeled sushi rice, this rice is short-grained and acquires a sticky texture when cooked, a quality that is essential for rolls. The next ingredient is rice vinegar. It's perfect for seasoning the rice and is easily available in most food stores or online. Soy sauce and wasabi are used as condiments in sushi making. Another important ingredient is nori. Nori is a thin, dried seaweed sheet that is used as wraps for rolls.
Make restaurant-style sushi at home with these tips.

Xavier Thomasa is a certified interior designer and runs his own interior decoration consultancy. Xavier especially loves decorating a home in wooden furniture and believes that nothing gives a home as warm and cozy a touch as all-wood furniture and decor.
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